Hair-cut register.



No. 873,998. PATENTED DEC. 17, 1907 J. W. B. PARIS; HAIR OUT REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED F3318, 1907.

I A 4 I I I 4 I 1 1 I n A TTORNE Y5 JOHN w. B. rams, or sKIpMoRE, TEXAs.

HAIR-CUT REGISTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented nee. 17, 1907.

Application Bled February 18. 1907. Serial No. 257.995.

To all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that 1, JOHN W. B. FARIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Skidmore, in the county of Bee and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Hair- Cut Register, of which "the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to improvements in registering devices for hair-cuts for the use of barbers, and its object is to provide a means whereby the usual manipulation of the barbers chair in preparing the same for the reception of a customer desiring to have his hair cut and the restoration of the chair to the condition that normally prevails will operate a register or signal or both to make a registration or to give notice that the barbers chair has been so used.

It is customary in preparing a barbers chair for the use of a customer desiring to have his hair cut, for the barber to remove the head-rest, and as the barber usually has a-number of customers desiring to be shaved to each customer desiring to have his hair out it is the custom to replace the head-rest immediately after a customer has had his hair cut.

This invention comprises a means whereby the replacing of the head-rest int'd'the chair will cause the momentary closure of an electric circuit including an electrically. operated registering device or a signal or both.

The invention comprises, a sliding member movable into the path of the head-rest shank by means of a suitable spring, and this member carries an electric circuit terminal arranged to wipe across a stationary circuit terminal and close the circuit when theheadrest is introduced into the chair, and thereby moves the sliding'member against the action of the spring.

The invention will be fully understood.

from the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, in

Figure 1 is a sectiomwith parts in elevation, through bers chair provided with the improved reg- VVhen the head-rest is re-' moved from the chair the arrangement is such that the sliding member is projected by aportion of the'back of a bar-' ister-operating device; and Fig. 2 is a similar section showing adifferent phase of eration of the device.

Referring to the drawlngs, there is shown the op a portion 1 of the back of a barbers chair in which is arranged a channel 2 for the reception of the shank 3 of an ordinary head-rest.

Adjacent to the channel 2 there is seated n the back 1 of the chair a rectangular casmg 4 having one side 5 coincident withfone wall of the channel 2, and this side 5 may, if

desired, be removable from theother part of the casing for permitting access to the interior thereof. 7

About midway of the height of this side5 there is formed through it ;.'an opening or channel 6 for the passage of the beveled end 7 of a bar 8. Adjacent to the beveled end 7 the bar 8 has a lug 9 formed thereon acting as a sto for the bar to prevent the beveled end 7 om projecting through the slot 6 more than a limited dlstance into the channel 2. The other-end of the bar,8 is carried by an elastic hanger 10 fast at its upper end on a bracket 11 secured to the casing 4, and between the inner end of the bar 8 and the rear wall ofthe casing is a buffer sprin 12.

Fast to a block 13 on the inner wall 0 the side 5 of the casing there is a bracket 14 car-.-

rying on its upper end a roller 15 upon which the bar 8 rides and by which it is held out of contact with the lower wall of the slot or pas sage 6.

Fast on the under face of the bar 8 is a V-shaped bracket, one leg 16 of which is of metal, say, copper or brass, and the other leg 17 of which is of insulating material such as hard rubber or vulcanized fiber. In operative relation to this bracket there is a metallic brush 18'faston but insulated from a standard 19 rising from the bottom of the casing 4.

Electric conductors 20 lead from the me: tallic leg 16 and brush 18 respectively to a suitable electric registeringfdevice or signal or both. Neither the registering device nor the signal. are shown since any approved form ofregister or signal may be used and such register or signal in itself forms no part of the present invention.

Let it be supposed that the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 1, with the headrest in place. block 8 will be pushed by the head-rest into Under these conditions the P coacting, therewith forces the bar inward signal will be operated by the removal of the head-rest and not-upon its reinsertion.

"the casing 4 and the bufier spring 12 will be- -.position shown in Fig. 1;

some authorized person. 7

acompressed as shown in Fig. 1. The con tact leg l6 Vsill have the relative position to .the brush 18 shown in-Fi 1, that is, the insulating portion 17 will be between the brush 18 and the contact leg 16.

I, ien a customer desires to have his hair cut the barber removes the head-rest and then under the action of the spring 12 the block 8 will be moved to the right as viewed in tlre'figures until the end 7 has been projected into the channel 2 and the stop 9 has engaged with the inside ivall of the side 5 of the casing. During this motion of the block 8 the insulating portion 17 has wiped past the brush 18, which is made of elastic metal so as to yield for this purpose, but during this movement it will be understood that the circuit to the register or signal has not been closed. v V Having completed the hair-cut, the barber returns the chair to its normal condition by inserting the'head-rest. The lower end of the shank 3 of the head-rest now engages the projecting beveled end 7 of the bar 8 and against the action of the spring 12 to the po'- sition shown in Fi 1. During this inw ar'd' movement of the Imr 8 the conducting leg '16 has been brought into contact with the 'brush' 18 and has wipedwacross' it. This causes the momentary closure of the electric circuit including the register or signal or both, and the register or signal is operated thereby, but theeircuit is again broken be-' fore the bar 8fi nally comes to rest in the It will thus, be seen that every time the barber s. chair is returned tothe normal condition after a customer has had a hair-cut notice of this has either been recorded on the register or. has been audibly given to The relation of the parts 16 and 17 may, of course, be reversed so that the register or Iclaim:

tering hair-cuts comprising -a removable head-rest a fixed electric. terminal, a movable electric terminal, a sliding block-carrying the movable terminal and having one end the path of the by the block andarranged to preventfithe closure of the circuit at the electric terminals when the block is moved in one direction.

tering hair-cuts comprising a remova le electric terminal, a sliding block" carrying roller support for that'portion of the sliding block adjacent to said head-rest. I

In testimony ,that- I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto. aflixed my signature in the presence of tvvorvitnesses.

JOHN W'JB. rants,

Witnesses;

' E. HUME TALBERT,

J AS. M. WAL ER.

. 1,. In a barbers'chair, a means fOrIre isend beveled, an elastic carrier for said block,

into the path of the headterminal, and an insulatin member also in the path of the fixed terminal and carried 4'. Ina barbersichair, ameans for re dsy 80 head-rest a fixed electric terminal, amovable the movable terminal and arranged in the' path of the head-rest of the chair, .and abeveled, and a spring tending to move the 

